Woohoo

Posted Tue, 01/26/2010 - 11:15

Got ta thinking about my broadband speed and how good it USED to be lol... so started tweaking the settings.

I've got a Vigor2820 and managed to get the following (from just over 3MB to 10MB):

vigor-before

vigor-after

Assigning "Send As" Permissions to a user

Posted Wed, 12/02/2009 - 05:09

1. Start Active Directory Users and Computers; click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.

2. On the View menu, make sure that Advanced Features is selected.

3. Double-click the user that you want to grant send as rights for, and then click the Security tab.

4. Click Add, click the user that you want to give send as rights to, and then check send as under allow in the Permissions area.

4.5 Remove all other permissions granted by default so only the send as permission is granted.

Recommended Repository Layout

Posted Tue, 11/17/2009 - 13:34

The trunk folder contains the main development branch, the branches folder contains subfolders with temporary copies of trunk for experimental development, release stabilization etc. and the tags folder contains copies of the officially released versions.

Query users

Posted Mon, 11/16/2009 - 11:07

Query a user i.e. ‘Admin’. From the command prompt:

dsquery user -name *admin*

Result:
"CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=microsoft,DC=co,DC=uk"
"CN=ScomAdmin,CN=Users,DC=microsoft,DC=co,DC=uk"

Ninite Easy PC Setup and Multiple App Installer

Posted Fri, 10/23/2009 - 14:02

If like me you spend a lot of time downloading installers for numerous websites then you might want to try Ninite.

1. Pick the apps you want.
2. Start your customized installer.
3. You're done!

Its not got everything I need but will defiantly shaves a few minutes off those lengthy machine rebuilds.